The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 188
It means betwixt and between, and that is just where I am.
Who acts: course, that · What happens: mean, be
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (course, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | betwixt | betwixt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 between | cc |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 3 betwixt | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 where | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 where | cc |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 where | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 where | cop |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 where | advmod |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 2 means | conj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 am | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 where | cop |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | course | betwixt property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that | where property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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